[1] In you, Yahweh, do I take refuge. Let me never be put to shame:
Deliver me in your righteousness. [2] Bow down your ear to me. Deliver
me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, A house of defense to save me. [3]
For you are my rock and my fortress, Therefore for your name`s sake lead
me and guide me. [4] Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly
for me, For you are my stronghold. [5] Into your hand I commend my
spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth. [6] I hate those who regard
lying vanities, But I trust in Yahweh. [7] I will be glad and rejoice in
your lovingkindness, For you have seen my affliction. You have known
my soul in adversities. [8] You have not shut me up into the hand of the
enemy. You have set my feet in a large place. [9] Have mercy on me,
Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away
with grief. [10] For my life is spent with sorrow, My years with
sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted
away. [11] Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly
contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw
me on the street fled from me. [12] I am forgotten from their hearts like a
dead man. I am like broken pottery. [13] For I have heard the slander of
many, terror on every side, While they conspire together against me,
They plot to take away my life. [14] But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said,
You are my God. [15] My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand
of my enemies, and from those who persecute me. [16] Make your face
to shine on your servant. Save me in your lovingkindness. [17] Let me
not be put to shame, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be
put to shame. Let them be silent in Sheol. [18] Let the lying lips be mute,
Which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and
contempt. [19] Oh how great is your goodness, Which you have laid up for
those who fear you, Which you have worked for those who take refuge in
you, Before the sons of men! [20] In the covert of your presence will
you hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them
secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. [21] Praise be to
Yahweh, For he has showed me his marvelous lovingkindness in a strong
city. [22] As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your
eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried
to you. [23] Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the
faithful, And pays back him who deals proudly in full. [24] Be strong, and
let your heart take courage, All you who hope in Yahweh. Psalm 32
By David. A contemplative psalm.
